Minecraft Crafting Guide

The crafting guide is a comlete list og recipes in Minecraft. This guide tells you how to craft in Minecraft and includes everything from simple tools and weapons, to crafting complex mechanisms and transporation devices.

Crafting is how most things are made in Minecraft. The 2x2 crafting grid is accessed in the inventory. The 3x3 crafting grid - where most items are crafted - can be accessed with a crafting table.

The list is updated upon every Minecraft update, so you will always find the latest available crafting recipes here.

Recipes List

This is a complete list with all crafting recipes in Minecraft. If you find any errors or missing recipes, don't hesitate to contact us. Please note that Saddle and Horse armor can't be crafted at the moment.

Functions like a Pressure Plate, it sends a Redstone signal when powered. Can only be activated by a minecart.

Minecart

Iron Ingots

Rideable objects used for transporting players or mobs along minetracks.

Minecart with Chest

Chest + Minecart

Used to transport goods and items along rails.

Minecart with Hopper

Hopper + Minecart

Minecart that moves items in and out of chests in the same way as a normal hopper.

Minecart with TNT

TNT + Minecart

Minecart with TNT that explodes when triggered by a activator rail or when it is hit.

Powered Minecart

Furnace + Minecart

Minecarts with Furnace can be used to push other minecarts. You need fuel to power this minecart.

Powered Rail

Stick + Gold Ingots + Redstone

Non solid block that is used to stop or increase momentum of moving minecarts. Powered Rails are powered by Redstone currents. Whether this comes from a Redstone Torch, a Lever, a Button, another circuit, or a Detector Rail does not matter.

Mechanism Recipes

Sends out a redstone signal during sunlight. The signal strenght depends on the sunlight intensity.

Dispenser

Cobblestone + Redstone + Bow

Dispensers can store 9 stacks of items or blocks in a 3x3 grid. When powered by a Redstone charge, it ejects the items in random order. Snowballs, eggs, fireworks and arrows are fired out as projectiles.

Doors

Wood Planks or Iron Ingots

Wooden Doors can be activated by right-clicking on them or by an electrical redstone signal. Iron Doors on the other hand, can only be activated by an electrical redstone signal.

Dropper

Cobblestone + Redstone

Block that drops an item from it\'s inventory as an entity (as if it were dropped by the player)each time it is powered. If there is a block with an inventory immediately in front of the dropper when it is powered, it will instead store the item within th

Hopper

Iron Ingots + Chest

Moves items in and out of chests, dispensers and other blocks that can hold items.

Jukebox

Wood Planks + Diamond

Used to play music discs. Right-click the jukebox with a music disc selected to play it.

Lever

Cobblestone + Stick

Sends an electrical signal when switched to the "on" position. Stays in its current state, unless it is clicked again.

Note Block

Wood Planks + Redstone

Plays a note when used or powered by redstone. Right click it to change the pitch of the note. A different instrument is played depending on the type of block it is placed on.

Triggers an electrical charge, when a player or mob walks on it. Wood Pressure Plates are also activated when something is dropped on them.

Redstone Comparator

Redstone Torches + Nether Quartz + Stone

Function similar to redstone repeaters. However, instead of one signal, the comparator receives two signals.

Redstone Lamp

Redstone + Glowstone

Emits a light when powered by redstone.

Redstone Repeater

Stone + Redstone + Redstone Torch

Redstone Repeaters can extend the current of a redstone wire beyond the 15 block limit. It can also delay the incoming signal. The switch can be toggled by clicking it and has 4 settings from 0.1 to 0.4 seconds delay.

Redstone Torch

Redstone + Stick

Sends a constant electric signal. Can also be used as a receiver/transmitter when connected to the side of a block. Emits a small amount of light.

Sticky Piston

Piston + Slimeball

Pushes and pulls blocks and objects 1 space. Pulls the block it is touching when retracted. Activated or controlled by redstone circuits.

Stone Button

Stone

Sends an electrical signal when pressed. The signal lasts for approximately one second.

Trapdoor

Wood Planks

Functions as a horizontal door but are only 1x1 block in size. Can be activated by right-clicking it or with redstone.

Trapped Chest

Chest + Tripwire Hook

Chest that sends out a signal when opened. Can be used to create traps.

Tripwire Hook

Iron Ingot + Stick + Wood Plank

Used to create a tripwire that activates a redstone signal. You can hang a string across a pair of hooks, and the tripwire will be activated when someone runs across it.

Weighted Pressure Plates

Iron Ingots or Gold

Similar to a normal pressure plate, but can only be activated by items. The number of items determines the strength of the signal. Comes in two versions, a light (gold) and a heave (iron).

Wooden Button

Wood Planks

Sends an electrical signal when pressed like the stone button. The signal lasts for approximately one second.

Miscellaneous Recipes

Used to change time from night to day. In SMP, all players in the Overworld must be in beds. Also changes the spawn point of the player, but compasses remains unaffected until you die and respawn.

Book

Paper + Leather

Used to create book and quills, bookshelfs or an enchantment table.

Book and Quill

Book + Inc Sac + Feather

Books that players can write in, read and edit.

Carpet

Wool

Carpets are thin like pressure plates and can be used as floor decoration. The color of the wool determines the carpet color.

Cobblestone Wall

Cobblestone or Moss Stone

Decorative block that acts in a similar way to fences.

Ender Chest

Obsidian + Eye of Ender

Used for storage like normal chests. All contents of the chest are put into all Ender Chests created, which means they access the same storage. The contents are localised to the player in SMP. If the ender chest is destroyed, none of its contents will be

Eye of Ender

Ender Pearl + Blaze Powder

Used to locate Strongholds, repair an End Portal bloc and craft Ender Chests. When thrown, they float towards the direction of a portal, which appear in strongholds. After a few seconds, it will drop with a chance of breaking.

Fence

Sticks

Used as a barrier that players and mobs cannot jump over, with the exception of spiders and spider jockeys. It is 1Â½ blocks high for mobs and players, but only 1 to other blocks.

Fence Gate

Sticks + Wood Planks

Fence gates serves as a door for a row of fences. They can be opened both inward and outwards. They are opened by right-clicking or with a redstone signal.

Fire Charge

Blaze Powder + Coal + Gunpowder

Fire Charges can be used as a instead of flint and steel. Left click on an open area and a fire will start. Can also be used as ammunition for dispensers, where they will shot out as a fireball.

Firework Rocket

Gunpowder + Paper + Firework Star

Firework that can be launched into the sky and explore. Adding more gunpowder increases the duration of the rocket. Up to three gunpowder can be used. Multiple firework stars can also be used, in which case all will go off simultaneously when the rocket d

Firework Star

Gunpowder + Dye + Extra ingredient (optional)

Used to create firework rockets. The dye determines the colour of the firework, and the extra ingredient determines a special effect. Extra ingredient can for example be diamonds, gold nuggets or a mob head.

Flower Pot

Bricks

Used as decoratives. Allows flowers, mushrooms, saplings, cacti, ferns and dead bushes to be placed in it.

Glass Panes

Glass

Glass Panes is a block that, can be shaped in similar way to fences. Their placement behavior is similar to Redstone, Iron Bars, and Fences. They have the same texture as Glass. They cannot currently be placed horizontally.

Gold Ingot

Gold Nuggets

Gold is used in several crafting recipes, e.g. tools and armors.

Iron Bars

Iron Ingots

Similar to fences. They are only counted as 1 block high, instead of 1.5 blocks.

Item Frame

Sticks + Leather

Used as decoration. Blocks or items can be placed inside the frame by right clicking the frame with the item selected.

Ladder

Sticks

Used for climbing walls. You can climb either horizontally or vertically. To climb safely, you can sneak while climbing (hold shift).

Lead

String + Slimeball

Leads or leashes, can be used to tie up non aggressive mobs. Can be tied to more than one unit at the same time.

Melon Block

Melon Slices

Grown when farming by planting melon seed. Can not be eaten, but can be used to store melon slices.

Mineral Block

Gold Ingots or Iron Ingost or Diamond Gems or Lapis Lazuli Dyes or Emeralds or Redstone or Coal

Turns minerals into a placeable block. Can be used for expensive building block or storage.

Minerals

Iron Block or Gold Block or Diamond Block or Emerald Block or Block of Redstone or Lapis Lazuli Block.

Separates a block into individual gems, ingots or dyes.

Nether Brick Fence

Nether Bricks

Used as a barrier that players and mobs cannot jump over, with the exception of spiders and spider jockeys. It is 1.5 blocks high for mobs and players, but only 1 to other blocks. Nether Brick Fence cannot be set on fire like wood fence.

Painting

Sticks + Wool

Images used as decoration. Paintings can only be placed on flat, vertical surfaces. An easy way to get a painting to fill up an area is to mark the bounds with any solid block and place it in the bottom left corner.

Paper

Sugar Cane

Used as crafting material to create maps, compass and books.

Sign

Wood Planks + Stick

Can display a text. Text can be 4 lines, 15 characters per line. To change the text, destroy the sign and place it again. Placed in the ground or on walls.

Stained Glass

Glass + Dye

Stained Glass is the dyed version of regular glass that can be used for decoration purposes.

Used to dye wool light gray. Can be made using an ink sac and two bonemeal or gray dye and bonemeal. Combining gray dye with bonemeal is better because you make 4 light gray dye from every ink sac (instead of 3).